Product Marketing Manager, AI Infrastructure & Software Ecosystem

Responsibilities

• Joint GTM Strategy & Partner Alignment: Lead joint marketing strategy and campaign execution with strategic partners (Nutanix, Red Hat, and ISVs), aligning roadmaps and joint value propositions across AI, virtualization, and edge computing.
• Core Messaging & Asset Creation: Author and produce high-impact marketing content, including pitch decks, solution briefs, product videos, analyst validation reports, interactive digital content and customer success stories.
• Full-Funnel Sales & Channel Enablement: Partner with sales enablement to develop and valida te field-ready sales kits, competitive positioning guides, objection-handling battlecards, and training modules for Cisco and partner sales forces.
• Product Launches & Campaign Execution: Drive end-to-end launch cycles for new joint solutions, orchestrating cross-functional execution across digital marketing, growth marketing, public relations, and event teams.
• Evangelism & Industry Presence: Serve as a subject matter spokesperson for Cisco compute and partner solutions at industry conferences, customer executive briefings, webinars, and partner summits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field, combined with 8+ years of experience in product marketing, solutions marketing, or technical marketing within enterprise technology
• Experience in developing, planning and executing end-to-end product launches or go-to-market (GTM) campaigns for enterprise B2B hardware, software, or cloud solutions.
• Experience marketing enterprise data center infrastructure, compute platforms, virtualization, cloud-native technologies, or hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).
• Experience developing joint go-to-market (GTM) programs, co-branded marketing collateral, or launch campaigns with strategic ISV and technology ecosystem partners (such as Nutanix, Red Hat, or VMware).
• Experience creating technical B2B marketing deliverables, including solution overviews, customer-facing slide decks, white papers, messaging frameworks, and/ or sales enablement collateral.
• Experience presenting technical product concepts and business value propositions at customer briefings, webinars, industry events, or partner conferences.

Preferred

• Experience navigating matrixed cross-functional environments, bridging centralized marketing organizations with dedicated product and engineering business units.
• Experience utilizing market research, customer win/loss data, and competitive telemetry to construct differentiated market positioning.
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) or an advanced degree in a technical or business discipline.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer